11 March 2020

Stokowski's BSO Debut 1964





Stokowski's debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, aged 82.

The following summer - august, 21 - Stoky also made his debut in Tanglewood
with a similar program
(with Strauss's “Death and Transfiguration" replacing Gabrieli and Vivaldi)



Giovanni Gabrieli/Stokowski: Sacrae Symphoniae, Canzon quarti toni a 15 (C.185)

Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso Op. 3 no. 11 in D minor

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major KV 297b

Ralph Gomberg, oboe
Gino Cioffi, clarinet
Sherman Walt, bassoon
James Stagliano, horn

Hovhaness: Prelude and Quadruple Fugue, Op. 128

Rorem: Eagles

Stravinsky: Petrouchka, Suite

Boston Symphony Orchestra
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI

Live - March 6, 1964
Boston, Symphony Hall

FLAC (separated tracks)






10 comments:

Guido said...

http://www.mediafire.com/file/gj28gd0grv3a6v2/STOBOS.zip/file

andrew said...

Thanks Guido!

Burtw47 said...

A very fine concert. The only comment I have is that the arrangement for string orchestra of the Vivaldi Concerto Grosso is not by Siloti but by Sam Franko.

In the summer of the same year (21 August 1964) Stokowski conducted almost the same programme in the Berkshire Festival at Tanglewood, but Gabrieli and Vivaldi were then replaced by Richard Strauss' Tod und Verklärung.

centuri said...

Excellent performance and amazing mix of works so typical of Stoky's style.
Thanks a lot !!

Guido said...

Hi friends, thanks for your kind comments.


@Burtw47 thanks for the clarification (of course my source said Siloti and I brought it back)

george schatzkamer said...

great stuff-thank you.i wish he did more mozart

Grover Gardner said...

Thank you, can't wait to listen!

Rootie said...

I am surprised it took so long to get Stokowski into Boston to conduct the BSO. Did Koussevitzky and Munch block him during their tenures?

Guido said...

@Rootie Very interesting question,
but I've no answer :)

ceb said...

Thank you for this. Appreciate your scholarship and hard work.